{"id":8801,"date":"2012-06-08T00:27:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T08:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=8801"},"modified":"2012-08-16T00:19:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T08:19:40","slug":"betrayed-by-shopbop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/betrayed-by-shopbop\/","title":{"rendered":"Betrayed by Shopbop"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n One of my few pleasures in life has been cruelly eradicated by the fuckers at Shopbop<\/a>. They have completely changed their format, replacing our favorite models with a bunch of Nobodies and removing the boxes that separated the images.<\/p>\n Where is Starving Girl<\/strong> and Sad Redhead Girl<\/strong>?!? There are a few token picture of Goony Bird<\/strong>, but they have airbrushed her distinctive tummy deformity and you can see that her heart just isn’t in it.<\/p>\n This is a real slap in the face after all my devotion. \u00a0Aside from the matter of my personal distress, I think this is a terrible business decision. They have broken the unique bond between viewer and model that made shopbop such a joy. \u00a0There is no one to connect with now, no subtext, and god knows the merchandise is awful on its own.<\/p>\n Fuckers! Idiots! I was so mad that I started a petition on change.org<\/a> but decided that perhaps it’s not a human rights issue after all. It’s more of a consumer betrayal, I guess.<\/p>\n Can anyone suggest a shopping website offering a perverse joy on the level of the sadly departed original Shopbop?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of my few pleasures in life has been cruelly eradicated by the fuckers at Shopbop. They have completely changed their format, replacing our favorite models with a bunch of Nobodies and removing the boxes that separated the images. Where … Continue reading